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Jane Kenyon, Jayme Stayer
Jane Kenyon, Jayme Stayer
English: Faculty Publications and Other Works
The pastoral emphasis and New England setting of Jane Kenyon's poetry has invited comparisons to Robert Frost and Emily Dickinson. The uncluttered spareness of her work and her interrelated themes of faith, guilt, empathy, and pessimism also place her among that collection of people known as New England poets. Kenyon's own love of John Keats-and his haunted experiences of pain and beauty-also informs her work.
Passing As Modernism, Pamela L. Caughie
Passing As Modernism, Pamela L. Caughie
English: Faculty Publications and Other Works
Passing has once again become a hot topic in contemporary popular culture and a major trope for our critical and professional activity. One thinks of Danzy Senna's Caucasia (1998); Philip Roth's The Human Stain (2000) and the 2003 film version directed by Robert Benton; and in literary and cultural criticism, Gayle Wald's Crossing the Line: Racial Passing in Twentieth-Century U.S. Literature and Culture (2000), Kathleen Pfeiffer's Race Passing and American Individualism (2003), and Brooke Kroeger's Passing: When People Can't Be Who They Are (2003), to name only a few examples. In Passing and Pedagogy I explore this concept largely in …
Stephen Dunn, Jayme Stayer
Stephen Dunn, Jayme Stayer
English: Faculty Publications and Other Works
That Stephen Dunn'.s work is difficult to categorize may account for his slow but steady rise to recognition. After working himself out of his Imagist training, he eventually found his mature voice in a discursive, abstract, but highly accessible style. Dunn has forged his own way, writing lyric poems composed of an appealingly intimate voice and a restrained, if pulsating, emotional fabric.